Microsoft to buy minecraft for 2 billion.

[dighn]

oh the irony if he takes this deal after calling out oculus rift for selling out.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

microsoft is determined to destroy pc gaming 1 way or the other. minecraft was immune to the stick, so they got the carrot.

 

[Ruptga]

$2,000,000,000 for a man's dignity and credibility? I'd take that deal, but I'm broke. I'd imagine Notch is living fairly comfortably, and who really needs two billion when you already have several tens of millions?

 

[Childs]

Take the money.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Great, now everytime you want to build something, you'll have to answer "Are you sure?"

 

[dighn]

$2,000,000,000 for a man's dignity and credibility? I'd take that deal, but I'm broke. I'd imagine Notch is living fairly comfortably, and who really needs two billion when you already have several tens of millions?

a lot more you can do with 2 billion, esp. if you want to do more than just living comfortably. he should totally take the deal.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Great, now everytime you want to build something, you'll have to answer "Are you sure?"

LMAO I just shot semen out my nose! I mean..um..


anyway, it's funny cause it's true.


Has there every been anything MS has bought up that they didn't ruin?

 

[IronWing]

$two billion dollars for original Castle Wolfenstein grade technology?

 

[Greenman]

this will go down in the books as the most retarded purchase/acquisition ever.

I think google buying youtube has that honer.

 

[Ns1]

$2,000,000,000 for a man's dignity and credibility? I'd take that deal, but I'm broke. I'd imagine Notch is living fairly comfortably, and who really needs two billion when you already have several tens of millions?

uhm, who the fuck doesn't need 2 billion? having an 8 digit yacht is way cooler than having a 6 digit boat.

 

[futurefields]

Take the money.

This.

There are more games to be developed. Time to move on from Minecraft and take the billions.

But then again I don't play Minecraft so don't care what happens with it...

 

[SSSnail]

Wait, people still play minecraft?

 

[bradley]

Here is Microsoft's Mergers & Acquisitions consulting team about to finish the final touches on the $2B Mojang acquisition. 🙂

Steve Ballmer would probably be sweating bullets until this deal was finalized. At any moment, someone could step right in and steal this opportunity out from under Microsoft.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Minecraft is still pretty huge. People have even made actual working computers in it. 😱

Personally I find the fact that they used java really limits it. I have a small server I run that me and some friends sometimes hop on but the map has gotten huge and it just bogs right down. Java is just not efficient for this type of thing.

I've been slowly brainstorming the possibility of making a similar game but in C++ and make it more MMO oriented but now that Microsoft bought it, it could become a copyright/patent/trademark/etc issue to make a game that's similar. The guy who runs Minecraft has always been reasonable when it comes to IP stuff and would probably have let it slide but not sure if Microsoft would.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Here is Microsoft's Mergers & Acquisitions consulting team about to finish the final touches on the $2B Mojang acquisition. 🙂

Steve Ballmer would probably be sweating bullets until this deal was finalized. At any moment, someone could step right in and steal this opportunity out from under Microsoft.

Even at a young age you can tell it's the girl running the show. I bet she gets all the credit during the corporate meeting too. 😛

 

[Markbnj]

Christ. They must want something other than just the game.

 

[Mai72]

I want that money! 🙁

 

[Hugo Drax]

When Microsoft buys it, it will go from a 40 person company to a 500 person company. There will be so many paper pushers, PowerPoint ninjas and meeting creators running the show. They will stack rank out all the programmers and original staff in no time, leaving a hollow shell of a company with nothing left of tangible value.

Then you will get fiefdoms and infighting. It will be like Microsoft buying Rare.

 

[xaeniac]

Don't see this ending well for MSFT

 

[ImpulsE69]

Each of those mincraft blocks are now going to cost you a nickle. Who says pay to play is dead!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Each of those mincraft blocks are now going to cost you a nickle. Who says pay to play is dead!

You will get 120 blocks for free though, that's the evaluation version. After that though, you will need to right click on each block and go through the activation process. After 5 blocks you'll need to explain why you need to use the same license for more than 5 blocks and try to sell you additional licenses.

 

[Imaginer]

honestly ..

my prayers have been answered.

in my opinion, microsoft is one company that really, really makes their games complete. polished.

maybe not AWESOME OMFGBBQ but you can count on them having everything in the game you'd want. Look at the Age Of- games.

Notch started work on minecraft, then as soon as it started selling he quit doing real developing and just filled it with flowers (the hats equivalent in minecraft).

In my dreams, microsoft will make a game called minecraft 2, which is exactly like minecraft 1, except there is real advancement (mobs become thougher, smarter as nights go by) and there will be a real endgame (build a rocket, or some other machine to take you back to civilization).

And i will play it over and over and over.

Minecraft is still pretty huge. People have even made actual working computers in it. 😱

Personally I find the fact that they used java really limits it. I have a small server I run that me and some friends sometimes hop on but the map has gotten huge and it just bogs right down. Java is just not efficient for this type of thing.

Between these two posts, it pretty much nailed what Minecraft NEEDS to do to further itself as a game. Notch has been sitting pretty much as Valve has with Team Fortress, Portal, and long before Half Life - now just sitting back and collecting revenue.

With the technical marvels that the game has done under Java, it was severely limited. Under a more proper finessed development, and device and platform integration, further aspects can be branched out more, using more of a solid modern technologies - along with Microsoft in software expertise and architecture.


Though I say this, they also CANNED great software in the past. Flight Simulator being one of them in favor of Flight. And recently, Streets and Trips in favor of the Map app, with no route planning what so ever or route saving. These things happened not even under Nadella's helm either (under Balmer).


So there is a right to be concerned. But there is a right to have some expectations to having Minecraft being in more capable hands than as it is right now, sitting and not going anywhere outside of unknown and not polished ways of implementation of mods under a REALLY unideal platform of Java.


If anything it would lead to a complete, fully open world (beyond a sandbox model) of video games, with full interactive terrain and manipulation along with the quests dynamically revolving around what you change the world it is in - gee... like real life?

It is something that Minecraft perhaps originally set out to do, or at least thought of, but no one can ever get outside of putting it to better use, other than mods and what Mojang puts out.

 

[sandorski]

Between these two posts, it pretty much nailed what Minecraft NEEDS to do to further itself as a game. Notch has been sitting pretty much as Valve has with Team Fortress, Portal, and long before Half Life - now just sitting back and collecting revenue.

With the technical marvels that the game has done under Java, it was severely limited. Under a more proper finessed development, and device and platform integration, further aspects can be branched out more, using more of a solid modern technologies - along with Microsoft in software expertise and architecture.


Though I say this, they also CANNED great software in the past. Flight Simulator being one of them in favor of Flight. And recently, Streets and Trips in favor of the Map app, with no route planning what so ever or route saving. These things happened not even under Nadella's helm either (under Balmer).


So there is a right to be concerned. But there is a right to have some expectations to having Minecraft being in more capable hands than as it is right now, sitting and not going anywhere outside of unknown and not polished ways of implementation of mods under a REALLY unideal platform of Java.


If anything it would lead to a complete, fully open world (beyond a sandbox model) of video games, with full interactive terrain and manipulation along with the quests dynamically revolving around what you change the world it is in - gee... like real life?

It is something that Minecraft perhaps originally set out to do, or at least thought of, but no one can ever get outside of putting it to better use, other than mods and what Mojang puts out.

The only part of this that interests me is having it remade outside of Java. The game in it's current form is otherwise near perfect. Quests or other such gameplay mechanics is already served well by the Modding community. Speaking of Modding, that's likely where MS will screw it up, by severely limiting or even eliminating the best part of what MC is.

 

[Ruptga]

uhm, who the fuck doesn't need 2 billion? having an 8 digit yacht is way cooler than having a 6 digit boat.

Ever hear of diminishing returns? Mo money, mo problems? Besides all that, some of us have simple tastes. You're not going to find me on Tiny House Nation, but if I had to choose between Walden Pond or Jersey Shore I'd take the pond.

 

[Jeff7]

Wow, I'd take that $. That said, MS would probably turn it into a XBox exclusive and ruin it.

- Lots of DLC.
- In-game advertising/product placement.
- Yearly subscription fees with Minecraft 365.